Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 11th August 2020
Lot 258
AN ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN MOUNTED MANTEL CLOCK MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER the eight day watch...
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £4500
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Description
AN ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN MOUNTED MANTEL CLOCK
MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER
the eight day watch movement with a pierced and engraved cock and signed 'J. Jolly a Paris', the circular enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, signed 'Jean Le Noir a Paris', the case decorated with mid-18th century Meissen porcelain figures, with a fruit seller modelled by J. F. Eberlein, a putto with a basket of flowers, a campana shape urn, the whole surmounted by a pug dog seated on a cushion and with ormolu branches of porcelain flowers
31.8cm high, 24cm wide
PROVENANCE
Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918)
Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)
Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)
The Trustees of Exbury House
LITERATURE
Charles Davis, A Description of the Works of Art forming the collection of Alfred de Rothschild, 1884 p.231, no.256.